 Hi you guys! My name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video I will be sharing with you my family curriculum picks for the 2023-2024 homeschooling year. So if any of you guys are new here to my channel this upcoming homeschool year I will have a sixth grader, a kindergarten and a preschooler. So as you guys can see that age gap is pretty big and it's not too many subjects that we can actually do all together but we do do this one subject and that is Bible you guys. I really love separating out my Bible from my formal curriculum so I have a lot of resources that I'm going to share with you guys today when it comes to like our Bible resources and what we use in our morning time. I'm going to share with you guys how I create like my own morning basket by picking and choosing all of the resources that I have collected over the years. I have a lot of Bible resources because I have been collecting these resources for the past four years and I love the specific things that I have to curate my own morning baskets. I love changing out like our poetry books according to the seasons and all of our resources and things that I add in it according to the season. So our morning basket it typically changes every six weeks when I change over like our next term is when I typically would change out some of the resources I have in our like morning basket. So without further ado I'm going to start rambling and I'm going to flip the camera around. I'm going to share with you guys all of the curriculum and the Bible resources that I will be using this upcoming home school year. Okay you guys the first resource that I use for a Bible of course is our Bibles. You guys this right here is my women's study Bible and I actually had this one for over a year and I really enjoy it because this Bible actually has like a commentary at the bottom of it so when I am reading like scriptures and things like that with my daughter I'm able to like break it down in simple form for her. So she's able to understand the passages and what we have read for that day. So this is my Bible and then this right here is my oldest daughter's Bible. It's really really cute because she actually has the Bible where she can color in it. So this home schooling year we have been reading the book of Psalms. So some of the passages or some of the the books of Psalms she actually was able to like color in her actual Bible. So she really is enjoying using her Bible. Both of these Bibles are in the NIV version and yeah we've been really really enjoying our Bible. So yeah as my younger kiddos get older I will get them their own Bible but again my younger kiddos you guys they are what they're five and three. So we have a little bit of time for them. So this is like our main thing of course is like our actual Bible. So some of like my favorite story Bibles that I do have is this 101 favorite story Bibles or favorite stories from the Bible. This actually went along with our master books curriculum that we used in our first year of home school and I still held on to this. So this just has like a whole bunch of stories in the Bible. It has a few like little comprehension questions and a memory verse and my daughter actually loved this one in the third grade. So I definitely think this is going to be a Bible that I'm going to use for my younger kiddos coming up. Right now I am actually using this tiny troops illustrated Bible for them right now in the morning and what I do is I just pick like a specific Bible story that I want to go over with them and they really really enjoyed this one right here. So this is the Bible I'm using now and soon they'll kind of like bump up to this one right here in the Bible stories. So this is what I'm doing for my younger kiddos. Another Bible that I have is this one right here. I actually got this one off of Book Outlet and it's my first or my illustrated Bible I can read. So as my youngest daughter she is learning how to read. I can't wait for us to kind of like go through this little Bible and she can like read it to me. So this is a level one reader and the stories in it are really really short. So when it comes to that time where she's reading fluently, I really hope we can kind of like read this illustrated Bible together. So these are like my Bible stories and my actual Bibles that I use in our like homeschool and everything like that. But for right now, like I said before, these are kind of like just shelved right now. And the main Bibles that I have in my morning basket is this one for my younger kiddos. And this is Brielle's Bible. Okay you guys, now as far as like him and him study, I really have been enjoying these heritage him studies from the Heritage Mom blog and they're so much fun. Like you really don't even have to print this off. You can just use it digitally because what it does is it gives you like a history of that hymn. And then when you have it on your digital file, you can like click here and read the rest of all the history of the specific hymn. All of these right here are links to the different genres you will be listening to the hymn with. And my daughter really, really loved like hearing like the contemporary version, then hearing a soulful version, then hearing a country version. And she really, really enjoyed this one. So we completed this volume one of the Heritage Mom hymn study. We've completed it in our first semester. I really wish we would kind of like took our time with it because we were just really enjoying it. So this is the volume one. And then this homeschooling year, we will pick up volume two. I didn't want to start it now because I wanted us to kind of like stretch this out. So we're going to go over this. And these are all the hymns that are in the second volume two that we will be doing. So we're going to do volume two. And I think if we finish this early, I'm just going to circle back around volume one because we really enjoyed listening to all the music, learning a history about the hymns. And my oldest sort of loved it. The younger ones, they just like listen to the hymns and singing them. So these are like what I have been using for like our hymn study. These are actually my devotion books that I have. And these are for those days where I want to get to Bible, but I want to be able to read like a quick devotion and kind of like move forward. So these are some of the devotionals that I use. These are like my really short three minute devotionals for girls that my oldest daughter will read to me. These are really, really cute. A lot of the messages behind them is really, really inspiring. We finished this book this year. And then last year we read this book was how God grows a courageous girl devotional book. And now since we finished this one, we're kind of like shifting this one till we get to the end of the school year because I do want to use another devotional for her. I haven't picked out the devotional I want to use for her just yet, but these were just simple, cheapy ones that I picked up from Amazon when we just had those shorter Bible days. One of the devotions that I use for my younger kudos this homeschooling year was big thoughts for little people, ABCs to help grow you. And this actually went with their gentle and classical preschool that we did this homeschooling year. You guys, I love these little this little devotional for my kiddos. We actually are still using this one. And I love how it has a little poem at the top like B is for behave. It means doing what's right. Be happy and helpful. Do not argue or fight. These are little comprehension questions that they have that they have to look at the picture and answer them. And then it always ends it off with a cute little memory verse. So I am still using this book even though we have finished a gentle and classical preschool because I loved it so much. Now these right here are actually some family Bible time stories that my mom got me and these are going to be for when all of my kiddos are a little bit older because the stories are more in depth and they have a lot of comprehension questions and things like that. But my mom went ahead and got this set when she was at the bookstore for me, the ABC bookstore. She was able to grab these on sale. So I have all of these for my kiddos. And when they get older, they all will be able to use these. I may be able to pull these out and use these for this upcoming home school year when it comes to going into depth in some of these Bible stories. But these are some of the pages. I love how it has like the history and things like that with it as well. So yeah, so these are some family devotional books that my mom purchased for me. And they're really, really pretty. And I can't wait to dig into these. And I do think that this probably would be a good year for me to dig into with Brielle at least. And then I will have them again saved for my younger kiddos when they get up there. Now you guys, for like our specific faith and our specific doctrine things that we use, I'm going to share that with you guys right now. I actually use an online website called Grace Link that has like my daughters, all of them, they have them separated into age categories as far as their Sabbath school lessons that I'm able to pull off. They have like songs and Bible videos and things like that. And a lot of times, especially on like those days where I'm kind of busier in the morning, I'm still cooking breakfast, but I want them to start off Bible. I will go ahead and put their Grace link on and I will have like the online read them their Bible study, which is really, really cool. It's really, really helpful for me. And then I can come in on the back end and we can finish off with their mini verse and they're like power texts and things like that. But that is one of the online Bible curriculums that I actually use for my kiddos as specific to our faith. These are some other books that I actually use for them. And we kind of like rotate out using these books each year. So this year, we have been reading with my oldest daughter, what we believe. And last year, we actually used this one right here, which was the fruits of the spirit. And then the last book that I have is God's 10s promises. This one actually goes over all of the 10 commandments. So again, okay, so this one helping children understand the 10 commandments. This one is helping children develop a Christ like character. And this one is just helping children understand the beliefs of our specific religion. So these are all of our like specific doctrine and faith based things that I do with my kiddos. It has like a lot of comprehension questions and things like that. So what I would do is I will pick like a lesson and we will go over this lesson for the whole week. And sometimes we will do like the teaching tips and things like that. So these are like our specific faith based things that I do pull out and I use and I typically keep one of these in our basket and I take the whole year to go over it. So yeah, so next year I may kind of like circle back and kind of go back over the 10 commandments because we didn't go over this one for what a couple of years now. So I really love using our specific faith and doctrine beliefs within our homes. Okay, you guys, something else that I love sneaking in our like morning basket is like science and art. I actually picked up these books right here from masterbooks on a flash sale. So each of these books I believe were only like a $1.99. So I'm so happy that I grabbed all three of them. So what these are are these are little um these are little passages of specific like animals and things like that uh that we can go over. This was really really fun when we did a lot of um life science in our fourth grade year. We studied mammals. So in the morning I will have Brielle pick one of these and we will read like fun facts about uh different mammals. So we actually enjoyed this one a whole lot. It really paired well in our morning basket and our overall flow last school year. I also have this one right here which goes over all of the different types of birds. It's like again it's really short passage of different facts about a specific bird and you guys even my younger kiddos you would be really surprised how much they pick up when it comes to specific facts. So I have these two books right here that we haven't done just yet the ones about the birds and this one right here is about all of the sea creatures. So I can kind of like pull these out next homeschooling year because my oldest daughter is going to be going over life science again. So we might just use these uh in our morning basket and kind of like read one from each. I'm not too sure. I'm going to kind of like let my oldest daughter pick what she wants to do when it comes to um I guess reading a little uh tidbits and facts about specific uh animals in our morning basket but these are really really fun and um we enjoyed them. I'm so happy I caught these on a flash sale. Now as far as art you guys um and sneaking in a lot of art and art history I really love these books. It's called come look with me discovering art for children. So this one right here is discovering african-american art for children. They have a whole bunch of other collections or other books in their collections and I do want to begin collecting these. I've seen these on thrift books really really affordably. So when we finish this book right here I think I'm going to begin adding to my collection. So uh what this is is like a simple picture study so uh what will or how we would use this book is that uh my daughter was studying the picture and then um I will answer I will ask her these questions and we will read a little bit about the art and the artist. It tells us how this particular portrait was painted and I really love this. This is a sneaky way to sneak in like art and art history uh within our home school. We haven't finished this book right here so I definitely know um we will continue to pick this up. I would typically only do like the art history one time a week and then the science book will be one time a week. So these will only get looped in two times in our overall morning basket. Okay you guys I'm going to briefly share with you all of the poetry books that I have. You guys my daughter loves reading a poetry book at the end of like our bible time. It really just like puts the icing on a cake for her. So this one right here is the one we're using right now which is hip hop speaks to children. We are really enjoying the cd so this just has a whole bunch of different poems in it uh that we have been enjoying reading in our morning time. So this right here is the one we're currently reading. You guys sing a song of seasons. You guys this was one of my best purchases. We definitely love this nature poetry book and we use this. We circle this one in and out of our homeschool year. Another one that I have that we use this upcoming homeschool year with my littles is the llama who had no pajamas and this one just had really cute sweet poems for their age group and um they really really enjoyed them and this poetry book went with a gentle and classical preschool. So I think I'm going to continue to loop this one in for my younger kiddos. Another poetry book that I have you guys Maya Angelo. We read this in our second year of homeschool. I have Out of Wonder. This has another or these are other um african-american poets in here and you guys the illustrations and this one is beautiful. So we really really enjoyed this poetry book. I believe we finished this one in our first semester this homeschooling year. I also have Under the Christmas Tree which is a Christmas poetry book you guys uh as you can tell we absolutely love reading poetry in our homeschool. So this is one that I put in our morning basket throughout the month of December. So this is a really cute one. We really enjoyed it this Christmas. I have Just Like Me. I actually purchased this one on Book Outlet and Brielle really really enjoyed reading this one. I think we started this one last summer. So as we finish off the books you guys what I do is I just recirculate my poetry books in our morning basket and this is another one I absolutely love adding in my morning basket. This is just affirmations for my kiddos and they love it and my younger ones love it a lot because it actually does affirmations in alphabet form. So when I was going over like the letter of the week I will actually pull out this letter as well with my younger kiddos and Brielle as well. So we really really enjoy this one and you guys the illustrations in it is just absolutely beautiful. This is one of my kiddos favorite page especially with the girls with the little afro puffs. They love this one. So yeah. Okay you guys and just like that this is how simple I will take all of the resources that I showed you guys and just pick out one from each of those categories which everyone we enjoy and create a morning basket. So this right here is how our morning basket is looking right now and these are the resources that we're using minus the HEM study because I want to start that up in August. So other than that everything in the basket right here we are using right now and that's kind of like how I create our own morning basket with curated resources for me and my home school. Thank you guys so much for watching today's video. I really hope you enjoy seeing like all of the resources that I have and how I make my own morning basket when it comes to like our special Bible time in the morning. Now I do put a lot of things in my morning basket and realistically every single day we do not get to every last piece of the things that I have in my basket. Some of the things I put in a loop and I just want to touch on these things. In our home school having this special Bible time with my kiddos is really really important. I love seeing them grow in their faith and I love being able to I guess feed them and plant these seeds especially for them here in our home school. So you guys thank you so much for watching. If you have any questions about any of the resources or where to find them feel free to leave me any comments in the comment section below and I will try my best to link as many things as I can for you guys but as always thank you guys so much for watching and I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one. Bye!